Texas A&M Galveston student Kirsten Stokes measures the amount of sargassum seaweed on the west side of the 61st Street jetty in Galveston.

Texas A&M Galveston student Kirsten Stokes measures the amount...

GALVESTON - Kirsten Stokes slogged through a mass of stinking seaweed piled up against the Galveston seawall in an effort to answer two questions: How much seaweed arrived in Galveston in the worst season in memory, and how much longer will it take the seaweed to dissolve?

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